As the Lakers hosted prospects for pre-draft workouts with hopes they will guide them through an uncertain future, those players received visual reminders of the organization’s glorious past.

The Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys plastered on the walls of the team’s practice facility in El Segundo awaited each prospect when they walked into the gym. The NBA trophies in the office of Lakers president Jeanie Buss sit by a window overseeing the practice facility, leading many to stare in awe.

“I asked somebody if those were real. They said, ‘Yeah it’s all real,” Arizona freshman forward Aaron Gordon said. “It was pretty interesting. Obviously L.A. is a great program. It would be amazing to play here.”

The Lakers have the seventh pick in the NBA Draft on June 26, putting them in position to acquire a prospect that would fill one of the team’s many needs.

Both Gordon and Indiana freshman forward Noah Vonleh marked arguably two of the most promising prospects available that represented part of the Lakers’ 12-player pre-draft workout on Wednesday. Should they become available at the seventh pick, both NBA TV analyst Steve Smith and Director of NBA Scouting Operations Ryan Blake touted Vonleh and Gordon as top choices.

“When I think of the Lakers, I think of a championship program,” Vonleh said. “They didn’t have a good season last couple of years. But I think with the right pieces, they can definitely get back to the championship level.”

Gordon and Vonleh worked out in separate groups for the Lakers on Wednesday, likely on the insistence of their agents so teams wouldn’t base their draft selection on the performance. But they would enhance the Lakers in several areas.

Gordon, a 6-foot-9 forward, is considered a versatile player. He earned Pac-12 Freshman of the Year honors after averaging 12.4 points per game and finishing seventh in the conference in rebounding (8.0). Vonleh, a 6-8 forward, provided plenty of versatility with his outside shooting (48.5 percent) and sparked buzz at the draft combine three weeks ago in Chicago, where he recorded the largest wingspan (7-4) and largest hands (10 inches long). Both players would likely bolster a Lakers defense that finished 29th in total team defense (109.2 points per game), 24th in defensive field-goal percentage (46.8) and 30th in fastbreak points allowed (16.7).

“I’m a versatile player and can cover different positions,” said Vonleh, who also worked out with Sacramento and will follow up later this week with Orlando and Boston. “I can talk a lot on the court and switch and do different things. I think my communication will help wherever I go.”

Where they go appears unpredictable.

Both Gordon and Vonleh said teams echoed the mock drafts that say they will land anywhere between the fourth and eighth pick. Even if both remain opened minded where they land, Gordon smiled at the prospect on teaming with Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash.

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“Kobe’s psychotic about basketball and I am too,” said Gordon, who will follow up his workouts with Sacramento and the Lakers with Utah, Boston and Orlando. “That would just be absolutely incredible. I’d be learning from a great and all the little intricacies of the game and details. I would love to see his work ethic. Kobe’s the definition of a true pro as well as Steve Nash is. Being around those two guys help me tremendously.”

It appears they would also help the Lakers tremendously too, their athleticism, defense and versatility bringing the purple and gold relatively closer to its accomplished history.